People Start Paying With a Fingerprint in Japan

8/7/2016 3:00AM

Tokyo-based startup Liquid offers a payment system using a fingerprint, an alternative to mobile-payment systems with smartphones from Apple or Samsung. And foreigners visiting Tokyo can now try it out. Photo: Liquid

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I ... with the fingerprint ... the idea has touched off interest among Japanese retailers ... for tourists can note right now ... the fingerprint payment service goes to Lakewood Tokyo starter ... try was first registered a fingerprint passport and credit card information ... at their hotel ... then at the store the can can simply by resting their finger ... on the sensor ... the service first started the table grow major shopping district in Tokyo ... it's called biometric sophistication ... their plane people's identity through their fingerprints Baynes or facial features ... the global market is two billion dollars a year in going fast ... Japanese companies like Fujitsu and NBC have the best technology in the field its use by border control agents and law enforcement ... until recently they haven't done much consumer business ... and all the fingerprint payment services for him to restaurants and the theme park holds ten bucks ... it's an alternative to mobile payment systems using smartphones from Uncle Sam ... in back to the future to people use their phones to pay for the cabin ... you may not be long before similar scenes played out in Tokyo ... in real